Overview
- A promotional trailer for The Deputy has been released and it reveals the film’s central premise and key cast members.
- The ensemble cast named in the trailer includes Duke Nicholson, William H. Macy, Stephen Dorff, Tiffany Haddish, Billie Lourd, Julia Fox, Colleen Camp, and Daniel Diemer.
- The film is directed by Matt Sukkar in his feature debut and the screenplay is credited to Carlo Bernard, with the story adapted from a Victor Gischler novel.
- The synopsis shown in the trailer follows part-time deputy Toby Sawyer as a missing corpse triggers a search that uncovers long-running local corruption without revealing major plot twists or the ending.
- The Deputy is scheduled for a limited theatrical run with a same-window VOD release on September 25, a distribution approach common for mid-budget genre films that aims to reach both theatergoers and home viewers quickly.